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bite the dust

vb. 1 (context idiomatic euphemistic English) To die. 2 (context idiomatic English) To quit, or fail.

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Bite the Dust

Bite the Dust may refer to:

  • A figure of speech for death
  • "Bite the Dust", a track on the 2005 Pussycat Dolls album PCD
  • " Another One Bites the Dust", a 1980 song by Queen
  • Bite the Dust (film), a 2013 Russian film
Bite the Dust (film)

Bite the Dust is a 2013 film directed by Taisia Igumentseva. It was screened out-of-competition at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. It is a touching comedy-drama with a subversive undercurrent of humorous criticism of the Russian government and modern Russian mores. It is sparsely but beautifully filmed.

Usage examples of "bite the dust".

If four female seconds bite the dust, so what, according to realm's point of view.

The leader of the Lizards has a screaming tantrum, and five Lizard scientists bite the dust: Xenor is evidently not a democracy.

Seeing the attack made equally upon them all, they united their efforts to resist it, and made the most forward of the assailants bite the dust.

He couldn't know that Ivan Goratschin had just made Bio #387 bite the dust.